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You can read reviews of Model Behavior in the American Ethnologist, British Journal for the History of Science, Journal of the History of Biology, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Medical History, New Genetics and Society, New Scientist, and Sociology of Health and Illness. Pauly Book Prize from the History of Science Society.

Finalist for the 2019 Cheiron Book Prize from the International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences.

(2018) Model Behavior: Animal Experiments, Complexity, and the Genetics of Psychiatric Disorders. Ironically, behavior geneticists’ struggles for scientific authority and efforts to deal with the threats to their legitimacy and autonomy have made controversy inevitable-and in some ways essential-to the study of behavior genetics.A complete list of my publications is also available on my Google Scholar and ORCID profiles. But Panofsky shows how pragmatic coping with repeated controversies drives their scientific actions.

Critics charge behavior geneticists with political motivations champions say they merely follow the data where they lead. All authority and scientific norms are questioned, while the absence of unanimously accepted methods and theories leaves a foundationless field, where disorder is ongoing. In the process, Panofsky argues that persistent, ungovernable controversy in behavior genetics is due to the broken hierarchies within the field. In Misbehaving Science, Aaron Panofsky traces the field of behavior genetics back to its origins in the 1950s, telling the story through close looks at five major controversies. Many behavior geneticists have encountered accusations of racism and have had their scientific authority and credibility questioned, ruining reputations, and threatening their access to coveted resources.

From the “criminal chromosome” to the “gay gene,” claims about the influence of genes like these have led to often vitriolic national debates about race, class, and inequality. Behavior genetics has always been a breeding ground for controversies.